Word: silesian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pact forces poised at seven potential entry points. Two East German divisions, the Soviet Eighth and Twentieth Guards Armies, the First Soviet Guards Tank Army and the Twenty-Fourth Soviet Tactical Air Army were mustered in East Germany. Hard by Poland's frontier was a detachment of Polish Silesian infantry and more than 3,000 Soviet tanks and troop-carrying vehicles were less than 25 miles from the Czechoslovak rail center of Zilina. Part of the Soviet Third Army manned Russia's Carpathian border with Czechoslovakia, while to the south, a huge Soviet troop convoy waited inside Hungary...
More than Willing. The two men standing in the wings who have most to gain by a weakening of Gomulka's position are Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar and Silesian Party Boss Edward Gierek (TIME, March 29). As head of an organization of onetime underground fighters known as the Partisans, Moczar, 54, intensely dislikes the Jews in government because many of them returned to Poland with Russian troops and held posts during Stalin's time. He is anxious to see them dismissed, even more anxious to see them replaced with his own men. Gierek, who was the first national...
...Building Revived. In West Berlin, the Reichstag once again became habitable. A huge, florid structure of Silesian sandstone-since 1894 the home of whatever democracy Germany knew from the days of Bismarck through the Weimar Republic-the building had bulked vacant and lifeless ever since it was gutted by fire on Feb. 27, 1933. The Nazis claimed the fire was kindled by Communists as the signal for a Red uprising, and a confused Dutch boy named Marinus Van der Lubbe was be headed for his alleged part in the crime. Since the Reichstag fire gave Hitler a pretext to gain...
Revealing Sign. Inevitably, there have been disappointments. About 10% of the refugees still live in substandard housing, including 700 Silesian and Sudeten Germans whose flowerpots and television antennas eerily sprout from the reconverted barracks at Dachau. Many still feel that they are worse off now than they were in their old homes. Only one out of six farmers tills his own land; when he does, it is on a much smaller plot than he owned in the East...
Saved by Nuns. Anunlikely agent of catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...